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Ella Griffin had two choices: take a fumigated capsule into space or tackle her spider phobia. It was a tough call…

I am the 27,867th person to watch an adorable eight-year-old girl called Amena playing with her pet, Eliza, on YouTube.

“She’s a little bit shy,” Amena giggles as Eliza snuggles into the crook of her arm, then changes her mind and starts to climb up her T-shirt.

Eliza has more hair on her legs than the entire Irish rugby team and only slightly fewer legs.

She is a Chilean rose-haired tarantula.

The fact that I can even look at a spider the size of a mini pizza crawling over another person is a miracle — five years ago, it was about as likely as George Clooney finally settling down with Kerry Katona, or Seamus Heaney turning up as a judge on ‘The X Factor‘.

For most of my life, I have been terrified of spiders.  Read on here http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/arachnophobia-3045755.html

A friend recommended Aisling Killoran, a hypnotherapist who treats all kinds of phobias. The most common are fears of driving, flying and public speaking, but she has treated people who are terrified of Barbie dolls and buttons.

Aisling used a combination of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), hypnosis and desensitisation technique to deal with my fear. This last bit turned out to mean huge rubber spiders.

EFT is a kind of psychological acupressure without needles. Aisling taught me to tap acupuncture points on my face and the chest while I remembered how scared I’d been in my kitchen.

She promised me that this would take the emotional charge out of the memory and I didn’t believe her for a second.

I made her promise to keep the rubber spiders in their box and, in between the tapping, I opened my eyes to check that she hadn’t cheated and taken them out.

By the second session, I was able to let her put them on the floor between us. And by the fourth and final session, I was able to put one on the back of my hand.

But a rubber spider is, well, made of rubber. What would happen when I met a real, live one?

Before I went to Aisling, just imagining that was enough to ring every alarm bell in my mind, but now I felt oddly calm.

A few weeks later, I came across a mammoth spider on the bathroom floor. Without even thinking, I picked up a toothbrush mug and popped it over him before either of us had a chance to leg it.

My husband released him when he got home. “How did it look?” I asked him. “Startled,” he said, looking kind of startled himself.

That was more than four years ago and I haven’t killed or maimed a single spider since.

If you would like to book an appointment to get rid of your fear or phobia once and for all then call either Ray Manning 087 6778049 or Aisling Killoran on 087 1352122 of Accomplish Change Clinic, you can also call us at 01-2986507

Source: Irish Independent – Lifestyle – Arachnophobia.     Well done Ella Griffin :-}

TOP TIPS on HOW TO STOP Smoking?

Reduce your consumption of cigarettes:

Smoke fewer cigarettes than the day before
Each day smoke two or three cigarettes less than the day before. For example, if generally you smoke 20 cigarettes each day, tomorrow try to smoke 17, the day after tomorrow 15, and so on.

IF YOU CHANGE YOUR BRAND OF CIGARETTES, YOU WILL SMOKE EVEN LESS AND THEY WILL NOT TASTE AS NICE AS YOUR BRAND!

If you get the desire to smoke, wait five minutes before lighting a cigarette
as time goes by, the desire to smoke lessens gradually as the craving passes.

 Set a Date to Quit Smoking be it “Cold Turkey” or make your life easy and consider Hypnosis to stop smoking easily!
Decide to set a date to quit smoking cigarettes completely.

• Keep your mouth and your hands busy
  For example, put something in your mouth like a toothpick or breath mints or carrots and keep your hands busy with a pencil or a coin.

 

• Do not smoke in your favourite places
  Stop smoking in your favourite places and do not smoke in the same place for more than 4 or 5 days, because all you’re doing is compounding a desire through repetition and association.

 

• Do not smoke in your home
  Decide not to smoke inside of your home. If you feel a desire to smoke while you are at home, go out to the street or to the garden before lighting the cigarette.

 

• Do not go to places where there are many smokers
  Keep away from places where there are many smokers such as smoking huts beside bars.

 

 

Have several prepared responses or excuses for when you are offered a cigarette

For example, say:
“Thanks, but I don’t want to smoke.”
“I am trying to quit smoking.”
“Smoking is harmful to me.”
“My throat hurts.”
“Thanks, but I don’t smoke anymore.”

• Talk to persons who have quit smoking
  Ask your friends who have quit smoking how they did it and ask them to help you to quit smoking.

 

Awareness on the effects of cigarettes:

Be aware of the bad physical effects produced by the cigarette
Every time that you smoke a cigarette, be aware of the burning in your throat and eyes and the irritation of your lungs. Smoking is not as pleasurable as you might think.

Collect the cigarette butts in a bottle
In a bottle place all the cigarettes and cigarette butts you can find. Add water and cover it. Every time you have a desire to smoke, look at the bottle and open it so you can smell the bad odour of the cigarette poisons.

Remember how the cigarette affects your health
If you have desires to smoke, remember the adverse effects that the cigarette has on your health.

 

Wishing  you the very best on your journey of being a successful non- smoker :-} Ray and Ailsing Of Accomplish Change Clinic Dublin

Stop smoking through hypnosis and self-hypnosis:

Hypnotic suggestion is the easiest and in many cases the only way to stop smoking. It is completely safe and medically approved.

Hypnosis is pleasant. It is a state of concentration like daydreaming, fascinated reading, absorption in music, or your favourite soap!

Your conscious mind or willpower is relatively weak. It changes continuously.

It creates many excuses why you should not stop. It says to you:

“You’ve been smoking too long to stop, you deserve at least a small pleasure, you don’t really smoke so much, you’ll gain weight if you stop, you can cut down instead, you can switch to filter tips instead. I’ve tried everything and can’t stop and so on and so on.”

However your subconscious mind is strong it has a great ability to create positive change.

Once it is set on a certain course of action it rarely lets you vary from it. In order for you to stop smoking you can tap into the great power of your subconscious mind. You convince your subconcious mind that you no longer smoke. and that stopping is good for you. 

The subconscious mind works at maintaining what you tell it you are.

If it thinks you’re a smoker, because you tell yourself you are, then you keep on smoking.

If you keep telling yourself that you have already quit eventually you will never have another cigarette.

 

The only truly effective way to reach your subconscious mind… is through hypnosis and all hypnosis is self-hypnosis.

DID YOU KNOW THAT:-

Within 8 hours

• carbon monoxide level drops in your body

• oxygen level in your blood increases to normal

 

Within 48 hours

• your chances of having a heart attack start to go down

• sense of smell and taste begin to improve

 

Within 72 hours

• bronchial tubes relax making breathing easier

• lung capacity increases

 

Within 2 weeks to 3 months

• circulation improves

• lung functioning increases up to 30 percent

 

Within 6 months

• coughing, sinus congestion, tiredness and shortness of breath improve

 

Within 1 year

• risk of smoking-related heart attack is cut in half

 

Within 10 years

• risk of dying from lung cancer is cut in half

 

Within 15 years

• risk of dying from a heart attack is equal to a person who never smoked.

 

Did you know that you get 300 times more carbon monoxide from one cigarette than you do from standing 5 minutes and breathing car exhaust fumes.

 

Hypnosis is completely safe!

Don’t want to QUIT—Hypnosis will not help

Want to QUIT—Hypnosis is a great tool

If you would like help in Stopping Smoking – call us today on 01- 2986507 or email us info@accomplishchange.ie

 

10 things you didn’t know about how Hypnotherapy can help you.

You know that expression “it’s in the back of my mind”

There are an abundance of methods available today to help people empower themselves.

Most people who try hypnosis for the first time will say “it’s my last option” and finish a session saying “I wish it was my first option!”

Hypnotherapy is one of the many empowering therapeutic journeys you can go on, which is safe and ethical and involves all the stages necessary to treat the whole physical, emotional, mental and spiritual person, in turn restoring and bringing balance of harmony back into you.

There are times in our lives when something emotional happens and it becomes so uncomfortable, that we do our best to bury it, hoping it will go away. Sometimes it does and other times it comes back to haunt us with a vengeance especially when something similar happens again!

Hypnotherapy is a gift to the “back of the mind” as it clears away the emotional stuck feelings leaving you feeling lighter and more at peace within your self along with being filled with positive thoughts and feelings.

Medical information has indicated that 76% – 85% of our illness can be created by the mind and are referred to as psychosomatic illnesses which can be addressed through the use of Hypnotherapy which is now gaining more and more credibility.

In Volume 7-1 of Psychotherapy, the Psychotherapy Journal of the American Psychiatric Association, Alfred A. Barrios reported a 93% recovery after 6 sessions, which is approx. 1 to 2 months.

10 things you didn’t know about how Hypnotherapy can help you.

1. It is the one time YOU are 100% fully in control in helping yourself.

2. It can help you release stress, worry, upset, past hurts… Learn to manage stress, to cope with everyday situations and challenges that come our way.

3. It can help you to feel more positive, motivated and upbeat

4. it’s like having a “mental massage” of the mind enabling you to become more relaxed and calm and to take control of, and deal well with stressful situations that may arise in your life.

5. Hypnotherapy can help you become more relaxed, focused, confident and self assured.

6. it’s great for addressing and releasing anxious thoughts and panicky feelings

7. One of the best ways to address and unpeel the layers of negative programming and Releasing of trauma’s no matter how old they are.

8. It facilitates moving mountains of emotion without you having to re-live or dig up all the details of the past!

9. Its suitable for increasing your sports performance, work performance, public speaking and more…

10. Did you know that 15 minutes of hypnosis is equal to 2 to 3 hours of regular sleep!

If you would like to experience a taste of what hypnosis feels like you can download a FREE 10 minute relaxation recording- click here  It’s deceptively simple and surprisingly effective.

Hypnotherapy over the last 10 years is becoming more and more popular and is holistic, natural, pleasant, drug free and inexpensive. After all we have at our disposal all the resources within us in order to resolve our issues. All we need is guidance to promote and bring about self-empowerment.

If you want help in resolving and moving on free from your problems, and feel empowered then please call Aisling Killoran or Ray Manning at Accomplish Change Clinic on 01- 2986507

www.accomplishchange.ie     info@accomplishchange.ie

Some other interesting Facts and Tips about hypnosis!

• you can hear and remember everything we say … you don’t go UNDER!!

• you can speak to us at any stage or when asked to

• you are not asleep you are always conscious!

• you are in complete control and aware, 100% at all times!

• you comply only with suggestions that fit your morals and value systems

• hypnosis is an art, science and practice enabling you to access your subconscious mind.

• contrary to popular beliefs, anyone can be hypnotized – unless you don’t want to be!

• We use the word sleep. That does not mean you go to sleep.

• Hypnosis is just a very deep relaxation of the nervous system.

people can be persuaded or forced to do things that conflict with their normal values through lies and deceit, but you do not need to be hypnotised for that!

Nicotine patches may not help smokers to stub out the habit, according to a new study.

Researchers found nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) designed to help people stop smoking – specifically patches and gum – do not appear to be effective in helping smokers quit long-term, even when combined with counselling sessions.

The study was conducted by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Massachusetts in the United States who are now calling for greater regulation of which nicotine products can be sold over the counter.

A research study shows that using NRT is no more effective in helping people stop smoking cigarettes in the long-term than trying to quit on one’s own.”

The researchers followed 787 adult smokers in Massachusetts who were surveyed over three time periods: 2001-2002, 2003-2004, and 2005-2006 and were asked whether they had used a nicotine replacement therapy in the form of the nicotine patch placed on the skin, nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, or nasal spray to help them quit, and if so, what was the longest period of time they had used the product continuously.

They were also asked if they had joined a quit-smoking programme or received help from a doctor, counsellor, or other professional.

Results showed that, almost a third have relapsed.

Co-author Gregory Connolly, director of the Centre for Global Tobacco Control at HSPH, said: “What this study shows is the need to approve only medications that have been proven to be effective in helping smokers quit in the long-term and to lower nicotine in order to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes.”

The study was published online by the journal Tobacco Control and more indepth detail can be read here